Wednesday, 31 December 2014

Coastal
American cities are sinking into saturated new realities, new analysis has confirmed. Sea level rise
has given a boost to high tides, which are regularly overtopping streets,
floorboards and other low-lying areas that had long existed in relatively
dehydrated harmony with nearby waterfronts. The trend is projected to
worsen sharply in the coming years.

A new report, released by the Union
of Concerned Scientists, forecasts that by 2030, at least 180
floods will strike during high tides every year in Annapolis, Md. In some
cases, such flooding will occur twice in a single day, since tides come in and
out about two times daily.By 2045,
that’s also expected be the case in Washington, D.C., Atlantic City, N.J. and
14 other East Coast and Gulf Coast locations out of 52 analyzed by the Union of
Concerned Scientists.

“The shock
for us was that tidal flooding could become the new normal in the next 15
years; we didn’t think it would be so soon,” said Melanie
Fitzpatrick, one of three researchers at the nonprofit who analyzed tide
gauge data and sea level projections, producing soused prognoses for
scores of coastal Americans. “If you live on a coast and haven’t seen coastal
flooding yet, just give it a few years. You will.”

The
researchers used intermediate-to-high sea level rise projections from the
recent National Climate
Assessment to guide their predictions for future coastal flooding rates.
Those projections included a rise in sea levels of five inches between 2012 and
2030, and a rise of nearly a foot between 2012 and 2045. To help consider the
effects of local conditions, such as the sinking lands of the mid-Atlantic
coast, the group used data
compiled by Climate Central’s team of scientists.

The 52
locations, from Portland, ME, to Freeport, Texas, were selected because the
National Weather Service issues flood advisories based on local tide gauge
recordings there. That allowed the researchers to confidently use the tide
gauge data to calculate historical flooding rates, and compare those with
projected future rates.

In the
absence of flood-deflecting marshes, seawalls or levees, two-thirds of the 52
communities studied can expect a tripling in the frequency of high-tide
flooding during the next 15 years, the researchers concluded. Half
of the communities studied are expected to be flooded more than two dozen times
every year by 2030.

Click the image to enlarge. Credit: Union of Concerned Scientists

The research
was published as the double decker effects of rising seas and king tides
spectacularly
flood Floridian shorelines. Without the 8 inches of sea level rise
recorded since pre-industrial times — one of the hallmarks of climate
change — those king tides would not have the same flooding effects.

The
projections were published four months after the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released
an analysis of the recent rise of tidal floods, which it calls nuisance
floods. That analysis revealed that nuisance floods were occurring now in some
places nearly ten times more often than had been the case in the 1960s.

“Impacts
from sea level rise are real and now,” said NOAA oceanographer William Sweet,
one of the authors of the agency’s June report. “They’re best viewed in terms
of an increase of nuisance flood frequencies. These frequencies have risen
dramatically over the last several decades, especially along the East Coast and
parts of the Gulf Coast.”

Sweet
advised the Union of Concerned Scientists team on how to use NOAA’s tide gauge
data. He is working with NOAA colleagues to publish their own projections
for the future rise in nuisance flood rates. He said the agency’s findings, which
he expects to be published in a peer-reviewed journal by the end of this year,
would be “similar” to the those published this week by the Union of Concerned
Scientists.

Sweet said
NOAA is producing the forecasts to provide communities with “environmental
intelligence” to help them plan for the fast-growing hazards associated with
sea level rise.

The new
report provides examples of some of ways in which hard-hit communities are
already adapting to rising seas, such as work to raise roads in New York City’s
Jamaica Bay. In Annapolis, along the vulnerable Chesapeake Bay
coastline, a partnership between the Navy and local authorities has produced
what Fitzpatrick called “the most forward thinking” approach to adapting to
rising seas, partly because the floods are being viewed as a national security
threat.

"Communities
need to be talking to each other," Fitzpatrick said. "There's
enough happening up and down the coast that communities can learn from places,
like Miami and Atlantic City, that are dealing with flooding on a regular
basis."

‘Nobody
Is Truly Ready’ For Rise of Seas

Abandon
Seaside! Globe is Flooding! Invest in Arks!

So might
scream tabloid headlines had news of projections for rising seas, which were
contained in a bumper climate
report by the United Nations, been, well, new. They weren’t. They were
a synthesis of previously published research on a decades-old topic. So the latest
ringing of multi-decade flood warnings was engulfed in a wash of more general
global warming coverage.

But the sea
level figures in the report, while not new to experts (and, by many
expert accounts, dangerously lowballed), were nonetheless remarkable — and
worthy of urgent reflection.

A king tide floods a street in Annapolis, Maryland, in 2012.Credit: Forsaken
Fotos/flickr

The report
warns that coastal property and infrastructure could be a foot lower in just a
few decades than is the case today, portending an unprecedented crisis for
which the nation appears to be frightfully ill-prepared. U.S. coastal cities,
established in centuries past when seas were 8 inches lower than they are
today, are now flooding
regularly during high tides. Despite decades of research and warnings, little
has been done to defend against the slow-motion marine invasion of landlubbers’
territory.

“The statistics
make clear that people keep moving to the coast, indeed, that people keep
moving to Miami, even as the flooding there becomes more regular,” Bill McKibben, a prominent writer who
has dedicated himself to raising the profile of climate change, told Climate
Central. “I think people imagine that this problem will happen slowly, but it's
already well underway.”

Preparedness
is improving, albeit at a pace that would seem to rival the gradual rise of the
oceans.

A hodgepodge
of local, state and national initiatives, while so far woefully insufficient to
protect infrastructure and neighborhoods from swelling flood risks, are
starting to attempt to adapt to meet the challenges they present. Strategies
include efforts to restore marshlands to buffer floods, to raise seawalls to
keep pace with sea level, and to retreat from coastlines.

The last
time the IPCC published a climate assessment, in
2007, climate adaptation was little more than an abstract idea. Today, it’s
an emerging reality, oftentimes framed as “resilience.” Resilience is a concept
that describes the boosting of defenses against storms surges, heat waves and
other weather disasters, be they amped by greenhouse gases or entirely natural.

“I would say
that nobody is truly ready for projected levels of future rise,” said Laura Tam, a climate
adaptation expert at the San Francisco-based urban planning think tank SPUR.
“But cities are light-years more aware of the threats and challenges of sea
level rise than they were just five years ago. You’re seeing many of the
densely populated, coastal urban areas taking on major community-wide planning
efforts to understand vulnerability and address risks.”

Even if the
world virtually stopped burning fossil fuels, and rapidly switched over to
non-polluting forms of energy, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s
(IPCC) new synthesis
assessment of climate science warns that, between 2046 and 2065, seas would
“likely” be between 6 and 13 inches higher than they were between 1986 and
2005.

And that’s
the best-case scenario envisioned in the report. Under the heaviest of four
pollution scenarios evaluated, the likely heights of the seas during the same
two-decade period would be between 8 inches and 15 inches higher than they were
a couple of decades ago. Projections for century's end are higher still.

That could
more than double the amount of sea level rise since the 1800s, which will lead
to what the Union of Concerned Scientists has described
as “incessant” flooding in scores of coastal U.S. cities in the coming
decades — unless protective measures are put in place.

Not only
were the IPCC projections not new, they were so old as to be unreliable. A
“flurry of new literature” published after the report’s 2013 cutoff dates
suggests they’re conservative projections, said Kelly Levin, a researcher at
the World Resources Institute. She recently profiled nine
landmark climate studies that were published too recently to be included on
Sunday in the IPCC’s synthesis report, including some that related to rising
sea levels.

“A lot of
the new research that we’ve seen since the cutoff has suggested that both the
Greenland and West
Antarctic ice sheets are far more vulnerable to some of the dynamics that
could lead to higher levels of sea level rise,” Levin said.

Even without
the inclusion of those new findings into the IPCC’s projections, however, Levin
points out that the international panel’s projections are frightfully high —
“pretty stark,” she called them. A gulf-like disconnect between the projections
of sea level rise, and levels of preparedness for those projections, is
evident, no matter which numbers you’re looking at.

In a historic acknowledgement of the increasing hazards associated with
rising seas, San Francisco recently adopted new guidelines to help
assess flooding risks when planning infrastructure spending.Credit: Sudheendra
Vijayakumar/flickr

Recently,
though, that gulf has been starting to ever so slowly narrow, more so in some
states and regions than in others. “It really is sort of a mixed bag,” said Robert
Kopp, an associate professor at Rutgers Climate Institute, pointing out
that while New York state has a climate
adaptation plan, New Jersey, which shares a border and many of the Empire
State’s flooding risks, does not. In the five years or so since Kopp, who is a
climate scientist, became heavily involved in climate policy, he says sea level
rise adaptation efforts “have moved forward more than they’ve moved backwards.”

In a
historic acknowledgement of the increasing hazards associated with rising seas,
San Francisco recently adopted
new guidelines to help assess flooding risks when planning infrastructure
spending. California will detail that and other local adaptation programs in an
online
database that will help coastal planners learn from each other’s efforts.

On the
opposite coast, Rebuild by
Design, borne from the damage inflicted by Hurricane Sandy, is spending $1
billion of federal funds to foster new ideas for rebuilding near affected
coastlines. New York City developed a $19.5
billion climate resiliency plan after Sandy struck. New Jersey is buying
up flood-prone properties in some areas and converting them to public open
space — even though some state officials there are often barred from publicly
discussing climate change or sea level rise.

Further
south, frustrated by the government of Florida’s apathy toward climate change’s
impacts, South Miami is trying
to lead a campaign to carve out a 51st state — one in which sea-level
rise is regarded with a sense of urgency.

Federally,
the Obama Administration recently published
a raft of agency-specific climate adaptation plans, including by NASA,
which built launch facilities and other buildings close to vulnerable
coastlines.

Experts
credit Hurricane Sandy with much of the change in American attitudes toward
addressing sea level rise risks. Sandy’s storm surge was more far-reaching and
damaging than it would have been had climate change not already led to 8 inches
of sea level rise.

Sandy’s
wrath followed the devastation wreaked by hurricanes' Katrina and Andrew, and
SPUR’s Tam says the high frequency of such storm-whipped disasters on coastal
cities, where populations continue to swell, are changing the climate change
conversation nationally. “We have so many more people living in cities now,
you’re multiplying the impacts,” she said.

A home is torn down in
Sayreville, N.J. as part of a property
buyout program aiding inland neighborhoods affected by Sandy.Credit: Rosanna Arias/FEMA

So far,
coastal planning efforts to better cope with rising seas remain just that —
planning efforts. Construction of new coastal defenses and implementation of
managed retreats from vulnerable shorelines will, for the most part, come
later. “There’s a lot of planning that’s going on,” Tam said. “You’ve got to do
the planning first.”

The
communities that are planning ahead for sea level rise, however, are often
relying on low or short-term projections, said Jessica Grannis,
the adaptation program manager at Georgetown Climate Center. The center maintains
a database of state climate adaptation efforts on its website.
“Politically, I think a lot of people are purposefully not using the high-range
scenarios, because they’re so catastrophic,” Grannis said.

Despite
their high profile, Grannis cautions against relying on the IPCC’s projections,
which she described as “pretty low” compared with some other forecasts.
“A lot of folks rely on the IPCC, but they tend to take this very conservative
consensus-based approach, and they don’t include some of the more up-to-date
science,” she said.

With sea
level rise planning so new in America, even just starting to brace for
understated projections would seem to be an important, if inadequate, step up
from when the IPCC’s last assessment was published.

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Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Stanford University Examines the
Biological Entity Found in Atacama Desert

The Neanderthal’s DNA is 99.5 % identical to
the human race,
a chimpanzee and the DNA of great apes is 96-97% identical to a human being.

Our own human history is still in the process of discovery, research and
exploration. Most of the information we take in and choose to believe about
religion, evolution and the origin of our species is often lacking complete
information.

A lack of truth and information has led to the human species to develop a
number of theories and belief systems that are widely accepted as truth and
taught within educational institutions without any full verification.

There is nothing wrong with having different beliefs about creation and the
origin of life, the mistake comes when we close our minds to other
possibilities and new understandings about the nature of our reality.

Sure, we do have lots of information, but what we perceive as
a large amount is still a very small amount. This leads to new theories, ideas
and world paradigms that are constantly changing throughout human history.

The specimen under examination in the video below was found in the Atacama
Desert. Research has already determined that a large portion of its DNA is from
a human female, presumably the mother. The astonishing thing is that 9% of its
DNA is unmatched, this is a very large portion of DNA.

What could it be? Researches don’t know yet, and it will take a number of years
to determine exactly what that unmatched DNA represents.

Below is a clip from the recent documentary SIRIUS. You can rent it or purchase
it here. I know
many of our readers have probably already seen it, but for those of you who
haven’t I thought I would shed some light on it.

When dealing with the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon, it’s really important to
question your sources and do some research. This subject is filled with
multiple agendas, and disinformation. We do not judge the people behind the
film, and we thank them for their work.

Any type of documentary that is able to open the minds of the masses to
realities beyond our world that do not fit the accepted framework is a definite
advantage, and we are happy to promote.

Sure, there have been some controversial remarks made by those with a ‘big
voice’ in the ‘UFO community’, and it’s only natural that we examine those
within the UFO field and see how it corroborates with other information that
we’ve been privy to.

Here is a clip of Dr. Steven Greer speaking about the specimen, it includes
clips from the research conducted at Stanford. The full version goes much more
in-depth with regards to the research, what it means as well as its
implications.

The fact that the Atacama body shares a large portion of DNA with us, does not
even make it a human-alien hybrid, in my opinion. It could be an entirely
extraterrestrial organism, which just happens to be very similar to our
species.

And, luckily, this is case is not singular.

1. The ancient elongated skulls,
which have been made famous by researcher and author Brien Foerster, are a fine
example of a species that is similar to homo sapiens, yet different enough to
be alien. Read more here.

2. The second example is the so called "Starchild skull." Researcher and
author Lloyd Pye dedicated a big part of his life to the Starchild project and
the results are amazing: according to DNA results, the skull is not human. Read
more here.

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